Motor Truck Spins Airplane Propeller to Start Balky Engine
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When airplane engine starters fail to work, a truck is often used as an emergency starter at the U. S. Naval Reserve aviation base at Floyd Bennett field. A twenty-five foot cable rope fastened to the truck’s rear bumper is attached to a special “mitten” that slips over the propeller blade. To spin the propeller and thus turn the engine over, the truck pulls ahead quickly and the mitten slides off the propeller tip at the end of the tug.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Motor Truck Spins Airplane Propeller to Start Balky Engine
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Motor Truck Spins Airplane Propeller to Start Balky Engine
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-10
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 4, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 571
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
